I met a former NBL point guard, who, for the sake of anonymity, I will call Dave. Dave told me how he remembers the day he approached Shane Heal (one of Australia’s greatest ever basketball guards), before a game, and told him that there was no way that Heal was going to drop 38 points on his head in the way that he had to other guards in recent matches. Shane and Dave had … [Read more...]
The little surf that nearly ruined a promising career…
It’s tough when you grow up in a place where hanging out at the surf is a way of life then, suddenly, work takes you to a place that is land locked and the ocean and waves become things that you can only dream about. I know. It happened to me. Years back I moved from beautiful Queenscliff Beach in Sydney to dreary old London to progress my career and, for the first six months … [Read more...]
Nietzsche on becoming a great athlete!
Philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, played as the starting number ten for the German national football team when he was only eighteen years old! He wanted to play rugby but, unlike Great Britain, France and Italy, Germans have always turned their noses up at such barbaric pastimes as “rugga.” Fred, therefor, never got the chance to live out his burning desire to play in the front … [Read more...]
Scorers and a play-makers. Is there is difference?
When coaches talk about the difference between a number 9 and a number 10 in soccer, a point-guard and a shooting-guard in basketball, a fly-half and a centre-three-quarter in rugby, a quarter-back and a running-back in American Football or a goal-attack and a goal-shooter in netball the focus tends to be on the differences in either the skill sets or the physical attributes of … [Read more...]